Vocabulary
Functions of cells
How do cells work together?
How do organs work together?
Parts of cells
100
A group of the same kind of cells working together doing the same job is
tissue
100
What is the basic building block of all living things?
a cell
100
What is the largest organ in the body?
Skin
100
What provides support to the body and protects body organs?
Bones
100
A cell's control center is its
nucleus
200
A grouping of different tissues combined together into one structure is a(n)
organ
200
Cells have a limit to how ____ or how ____ small they can be.
Big; small
200
Which type of cells is branching?
Nerve cells
200
What are the organs called that work together to move the body?
Muscles
200
The _______ holds the contents of the cell together and controls what passes into and out of the cell.
Cell membrane
300
A group of organs and tissues that work together to carry out a life process is a(n)
organ system
300
What is the process through which cells get energy called?
Cellular respiration
300
Which type of cells is flat?
Skin cells
300
It takes ____ muscles to move a bone.
Two
300
A cell’s ______ holds smaller parts in the cell.
Cytoplasm
400
These two cell parts are only found in plant cells.
Cell wall and chloroplasts
400
What two things combine during cellular respiration?
Oxygen and food
400
Which type of cells is round?
Blood cells
400
Organs work together as ________ to perform major life processes.
Organ systems
400
A cell’s _______ provides storage.
Vacuoles
500
Some common cell parts of plant and animal cells include (name at least 3):
cell membrane, nucleus, cytoplasm, and vacuole
500
What three things do cells need to do for survival?
Take in food, turn the food into energy, and get rid of wastes
500
What do the structures look like that vibrate to make sound waves and that clear away dirt in the lungs?
Hair-like
500
Bones move when one muscles _____ and the other muscle ______.
Contracts and relaxes
500
A cell’s energy producers are its
mitochondria